Far from Home

I caught the movie A Bridge Too Far on TCM the other day. The movie portrays the World War Two battles caused by Operation Market Garden. The bridge in the title of the movie is at Arnhem in the Netherlands.

Near the location of the Landing Zones for the British 1st Airborne Division and the site of the last stand near the Hartenstein Hotel, lies the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's (CWGC) Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery. During a recent visit to Holland I visited the cemetery for a second time.
The cemetery has 1,747 graves. All the head stones of the CWGC are uniform and there is no distinction made for rank, service, race or creed. All of the cemeteries I have visited in France, Belgium and The Netherlands have a simple layout and this plinth with Their Name Liveth For Evermore carved in it.
This cemetery is predominantly for the servicemen who died as part of Operation Market Garden but also contains those that died in and around the area up to the end of the war.

The effects of war mean that the dead cannot always be identified. This is one of the 245 unidentified graves in the cemetery.One of the 79 Polish graves in the cemetery.
One of the four Kiwi headstones. Note the religion of FTLT Singer.
Two more Kiwis.
One of the 33 Canadians.
Men of all religions served and died.
One of the two Dutchies buried here.
One of the four Aussies.
Four more of the 245 unknown soldiers.
Each CWGC cemetery has a register listing the names of those buried in it. A simple system of numbered rows and letter blocks allows one to find a grave site.
Visitors.
All in a row.